Shevchenkiana by Ivan Marchuk

The Shevchenkiana by Ivan Marchuk is a series of works from the collection "Voice of my soul" by the Ukrainian painter Ivan Marchuk, who
holds the title of People's Artist of Ukraine and is a laureate of the Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine.

History of creation

Marchuk painted the first portrait of Taras Shevchenko at the age of thirteen, when he was in the 7th grade of a rural school in Ternopil Oblast. In 1964, the painter won a student competition with an image of Shevchenko in oil on canvas. He chose the lines from Kobzar as the title of the work: "I am punished, I am tormented, but I do not repent."
Marchuk's "Shevchenkiana" consists of 42 paintings, which were made in tempera. Marchuk wanted to fully appreciate the environment in which Shevchenko made his prophecies and created vivid images through poetry. Therefore, he worked in Ukrainian villages, and not a single painting was created in the city. The artist conveyed the intensity of Shevchenko's words, the richness of spiritual aspirations, personal and existential searches, and philosophical reflections of the Kobzar.

Public and critical reception

Dmytro Pavlychko notes the originality of the interpretation of Kobzar in this way:
In 1994, the Dnipro Publishing House published Kobzar with illustrations from Ivan Marchuk's Shevchenkiana. In 2014, the catalog "Shevchenkiana by Ivan Marchuk" was published in Ternopil, that effort was initiated and funded by the rector of Ternopil National Economic University Andrii Krysovatyi.
Marchuk's paintings were exhibited at the Shevchenko National Preserve, the National Museum Taras Shevchenko, the House of the National Writers' Union of Ukraine, the National Art Museum, and others.
The paintings are kept in the Shevchenko National Preserve, while the portrait of the poet and an illustration to his message "To the Dead and the Living" are kept in the National Museum of Taras Shevchenko.

List of paintings

Marchuk named individual paintings after specific stanzas from poems by Taras Shevchenko.

No.	Painting	Title	Technique	Dimensions	Date	Notes
1.		Illustration to Taras Shevchenko's poem "Mariia"	Cardboard on tempera	60 × 50	1983
2.		Illustration to Taras Shevchenko's poetry "The Wind is blowing down the street"	Cardboard on tempera	60 × 50	1983
3.		Illustration to Taras Shevchenko's poem "Mariia"	Cardboard on tempera	60 × 50	1983
4.		Illustration to Taras Shevchenko's poem "Mariia"	Cardboard on tempera	60 × 50	1983
5.		Illustration to Taras Shevchenko's poem "Mariia"	Cardboard on tempera	60 × 50	1983
6.		Illustration to Taras Shevchenko's poem "Dream"	Cardboard on tempera	60 × 50	1983
7.		Illustration to Taras Shevchenko's poetry "And golden and dear"	Cardboard on tempera	60 × 50	1983
8.		Illustration to Taras Shevchenko's poem "Kateryna"	Cardboard on tempera	60 × 50	1983
9.		Illustration to Taras Shevchenko's poetry "A cherry orchard near the house"	Cardboard on tempera	60 × 50	1983
10.		Illustration to Taras Shevchenko's poetry "Sometimes in captivity I remember"	Cardboard on tempera	60 × 50	1983
11.		Illustration to Taras Shevchenko's poetry "Behind the ravine is a ravine..."	Cardboard on tempera	60 × 50	1983
12.		Illustration to Taras Shevchenko's poem "Neophytes"	Cardboard on tempera	60 × 50	1983
13.		Illustration to Taras Shevchenko's poem "Neophytes"	Cardboard on tempera	60 × 50	1983
14.		Illustration to Taras Shevchenko's poem "Haidamaky"	Cardboard on tempera	60 × 50	1983
15.		Illustration to Taras Shevchenko's poem "Haidamaky"	Cardboard on tempera	60 × 50	1983
16.		Illustration to Taras Shevchenko's poem "Haidamaky"	Cardboard on tempera	60 × 50	1983
17.		Illustration to Taras Shevchenko's poetry "In Our Paradise on Earth"	Cardboard on tempera	60 × 50	1983
18.		Illustration to the poem "Monk" by Taras Shevchenko	Cardboard on tempera	60 × 50	1983
19.		Illustration to Taras Shevchenko's poem "Tytarivna"	Cardboard on tempera	60 × 50	1983
20.		Illustration to Taras Shevchenko's poetry "To A. Kozachkovskyi"	Cardboard on tempera	60 × 50	1983
21.		Illustration to Taras Shevchenko's poetry "Days pass, nights pass..."	Cardboard on tempera	60 × 50	1983
22.		Portrait of Taras Shevchenko. Illustration to Taras Shevchenko's poetry "A day goes by and a night goes by"	Cardboard on tempera	60 × 50	1983
23.		Illustration to Taras Shevchenko's poetry "Thought"	Cardboard on tempera	60 × 50	1983
24.		Illustration to Taras Shevchenko's poem "The Slave"	Cardboard on tempera	60 × 50	1983
25.		Illustration to Taras Shevchenko's poem "Tarasova Night"	Cardboard on tempera	60 × 50	1983
26.		Illustration to Taras Shevchenko's poem "Ivan Pidkova"	Cardboard on tempera	60 × 50	1983
27.		Portrait of Taras Shevchenko. Illustration to Taras Shevchenko's poetry "Imitation of the 11th Psalm"	Cardboard on tempera	60 × 50	1983
28.		Portrait of Taras Shevchenko. Illustration to Taras Shevchenko's poetry "Won't they leave us, the poor"	Cardboard on tempera	60 × 50	1983
29.		Illustration to Taras Shevchenko's poem "Neophytes"	Cardboard on tempera	60 × 50	1983
30.		Illustration to Taras Shevchenko's ballad "Bewitched"	Cardboard on tempera	60 × 50	1983
31.		Illustration to Taras Shevchenko's ballad "Bewitched"	Cardboard on tempera	60 × 50	1983
32.		Illustration to the ballad "Poplar" by Taras Shevchenko	Cardboard on tempera	60 × 50	1983
33.		Illustration to Taras Shevchenko's poetry "Both Archimedes and Galileo..."	Cardboard on tempera	60 × 50	1983
34.		Illustration to Taras Shevchenko's poetry "Was, am I doing what, or am I walking"	Cardboard on tempera	60 × 50	1983
35.		Illustration to Taras Shevchenko's poem "The Owl"	Cardboard on tempera	60 × 50	1983—1984
36.		Illustration to Taras Shevchenko's poetry "At That Kateryna's"	Cardboard on tempera	60 × 50	1983—1984
37.		Illustration to Taras Shevchenko's poem "Tytarivna"	Cardboard on tempera	60 × 50	1983—1984
38.		Illustration to Taras Shevchenko's poem "Tytarivna"	Cardboard on tempera	60 × 50	1983—1984
39.		Illustration to Taras Shevchenko's poem "Kateryna"	Cardboard on tempera	60 × 50	1983—1984
40.		Illustration to Taras Shevchenko's poetry "Isaiah. Chapter 35"	Cardboard on tempera	60 × 50	1983—1984
41.		Illustration to Taras Shevchenko's poetry "Oh Three Roads Wide"	Cardboard on tempera	60 × 50	1983—1984
42.		Illustration to Taras Shevchenko's poetry "I grew up in a foreign land"	Cardboard on tempera	60 × 50	1983—1984

Awards

In 1997, Ivan Marchuk was awarded the Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine for his series of works "Shevchenkiana" from the collection "Voice of my soul".